• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I completely agree, angry people have never complished anything ever. Not once have people channeled negative emotions into action or art. It’s impossible. Just be positive and use that, as it is the only known way of success. Never be negative. Always positive. Positivity only from now on!

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      Also most of the rights we enjoy are thanks to the French and Russian people who had a whole lot of negative thoughts about their kings and expressed them loud enough for the ruling classes in the rest of the world to hear.

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      Not once have people channeled negative emotions into action or art. It’s impossible.

      Except, no? Art is about expressing one’s self. There’s tons of art out there inspired by negative emotions. Anger-fueled protest songs, Emily Dickinson’s poems about death, countless paintings created to express a people’s or an individual’s plight, the list goes on.

      Being positive is definitely better for one’s health, but to say negative emotions have never and could never be used to create art is absurd.

      Edit: Or was your comment sarcasm? I truly cannot tell anymore.

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        sorry, I’m an old fart on the internet, my comment was covered in sarcasm haha. I get that negative people drain the positivity out of things, but I think history would call this era in america a trump-led republican-manufactured depression. Negativity happens in depressions, I don’t think it’s wise to curse it like the person I was originally replying to was alluding to. Positivity is useful as well, and much more so when it comes to organizing things that bring about immediate relief.

        Saying ‘stop being negative’, right now in this moment, is saying “stop being unhealthy” to people losing their medical coverage or “stop being unhoused” to people being kicked out of their apartments or “stop crying” because your wife lost her white collar job too and now youre both working door dash to stay afloat in this economy. Some people are literally trying to survive to not die and don’t have the literal privilege of being in a positive mood when a random person on the internet graces upon the comment section of a lemmy thread. How dare they. Fucking people who dare think differently than them because they forgot the random internet person who needs positivity constantly around them might feel a bit sad about negativity.

        What people need are good neighbors. I’m obviously not one yet but damn just leave people alone please. Not you but people like the person I originally replied to